Failure Quote by Jacob Weisberg

I believe that the financial crisis of 2008/9 exposed more a lack of ethics and morality - especially by the financial sector - rather…

— Paul Polman

What would've happened, do you think, had the government not intervened in October 2008? The catastrophe to the economy would've been absolutely unbelievable. And…

— Robert Skidelsky, Baron Skidelsky

Everyone on the Commission assumes that 9/11 resulted from a lack of government action. No one in Washington has raised the question of whether…

— Ron Paul

The failure of Lehman may have allowed the government to do more to prop up the economy than it otherwise could.

— Andrew Ross Sorkin

Imperceptibly, the developed world's manufacturing base was gradually eroding and being replaced by securitized finance that destroyed itself and nearly its economies in 2008.

— Bill Gross

You can't look back at the worst financial crisis of our lifetimes that started in 2008 and not have some important lessons about the…

— Austan Goolsbee

A complete investment in the Obama administration required that any real opposition had to be demonized. The investment in Barack Obama had to be…

— Bob Ehrlich

The single most remarkable (and revealing) fact of the Obama presidency may very well be the lack of a single prosecution of Wall Street…

— Glenn Greenwald

2008 was to the American economy what 9/11 was to national security. Yet while 9/11 prompted the U.S. government to tear up half the…

— Matt Taibbi

The assumption that Washington could and would resolve Lehman Brothers without a bankruptcy, as it had Bear Stearns, was the single biggest mistake in…

— David Malpass

In the wake of the 2008 recession, Congress and the Obama Administration rightly focused financial regulation on protecting the nation's financial system from itself.

— Seth Moulton

In short, the elimination of the financial legacy of Reaganomics could force the United States to make some exceptionally difficult choices indeed.

— Robert Gilpin